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Theodore Roosevelt 



By One Who Voted for Him Three Times 



WORLD UNION 




A present World Union is not at all comparable with past 
leagues, because aeroplanes and wireless and electric, steam and 
gasoline inventions make it much cheaper and easier now to 
quickly centralize delegates and world facts or information or 
truth if folks want truth. This helps emphasize Truth more 
than military force or mere laws. World Union should prob- 
ably have legislative, executive and judicial departments some- 
what similar to the tried and tested departments of the U. S. 
Government and the great British Empire, which are both made 
up of States which are themselves larger and richer than many 
independent nations at present are. 



An inventor, lawyer. Christian statement of facts strongly pointing 
to the need of an immediate and efficient world union. 

E. CORNELIUS ANDREWS, B. S., B. LL., Author, 
II 

P. O. Lock Box 593. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



Copyright, 1919 
Bv E. Cornelius Andrews 



E7S7 
•A SJ 



FEB -7 1919 



'Cf.A5fOJ)5l 



Theodore Roosevelt 



(By one who voted for him three times.) 

Words fail us, for we cannot hope to picture fully the many sides 
of this national world hero. Yet we can mention a few of his deeds 
and qualities for the benefit of his myriads of mourning friends and the 
consolation of his family. 

Theodore Roosevelt, born rich, in New York City, and educated in 
Harvard, and on a Dakota ranch, was and is a mighty and fearless leader 
of men, one of our greatest Presidents, a near-martyr by assassination, 
in fact. I am glad I emphasized the value of the ballot (for many will 
not go a block to vote), when I went 750 miles and back from Ann Arbor, 
Mich., where I studied law, to Vermillion, S. D., 1500 miles in all, when 
I cast my first ballot after reaching voting age for the martyred McKinley 
and Roosevelt. 

I thought then, and still believe, that both Republican leaders were 
more fully pledged than the Democrats to the idea that big business is 
not necessarily corrupt, and when rightly run big business is highly helpful 
to the public or the masses. I believe the men controlling the corpora- 
tions, on the average, have made good and fully justified the belief of 
Roosevelt and his supporters. I warmly admired ^Roosevelt's real courage 
in daring to attack corrupt big business, as shown in unfair railroad 
rebates, etc. He exalted the Presidency by using it as a pulpit to preach 
against predatory wealth, railroad rebates, etc. We sometimes thought 
he was bluffing because he did not change and execute laws fast enough 
to suit us, not realizing the immense difficulties he fought. I sometimes 
wondered if his study of the national transportation problem did not 
naturally lead to a study of world transportation and eventuate in his 
greatest everlasting monument, the Panama Canal, which was due to his 
energy then, and desirable direct action methods, otherwise it might have 
been delayed many years. By fighting predatory wealth Roosevelt was 
the best protector of honest wealth in America, and the greatest fighter 
against destructive Bolshevikism in the world. For sheer moral courage 
the revered President Roosevelt's greatest heroism was shown most con- 
spicuously when he obeyed the Bible command, "Come out from among 
them and be ye separate." when he left the party and friends who had 
honored him so much in the past and led the Progressives when I voted 
for him last. He believed in the righteousness of this cause so much 
that he dared help start a new party which cast vastly the largest vote any 
new jarty ever won before in America. I beliexe Theodore Roosevelt's 
fame is the kind that will grow with time. Wise })rogress is real conser- 
vation. 

I voted for Roosevelt three times, McKinley once, and Taft once, 
and yet I admire President Wilson much for his mastery of English an4 
ideas, and especially for his League of Nations and fourteen Peace Point 
ideas as understood at the present time, January 8th, 1919. They mean 
progress. . ._■ • ■ » . 

I paid all my own expenses from Dakota to Washington and back 
in order to see Roosevelt and Fairbanks inaugurated, and while there I 

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secured a very fortunate position in the nearest part of the crowd, hearing 
I'resiflent Roosevelt read his inaugural address. Also after I had climbed 
the Washington monument (because the elevator had just gone up ahead 
of me, and ran only once every twenty minutes), and was strolling in 
the rear of the White House, not knowing I was so near it. because I 
was only familiar with the front view, I met an ideally charming little 
boy with his pony and a grinning negro attendant and talked with him 
two or three minutes, as one would with any very nice little child. My 
heart went out to him instantly and wholly on seeing him. and it was only 
after he had started away that I asked some one near me who he was, and 
learned he was Quenten Roosevelt. This incident had been lived over in 
my mind often enough, so that I felt extreme personal sorrow on learning 
of the death of the heroic Allied aviator in beautiful war-torn France. 

President Roosevelt was a splendid scholar, the author of much 
widely-read literature, and his books, like the "\\'inning of the West." no 
doubt helped him much politically, and also should bring in a large royalty 
income now. Yet he hated pedantry or scholarly affectation, and loved 
simple, straightforward statements, such as that he wished to give "every 
one a square deal." May God's richest blessing rest with all his sincere 
mourners in his home and throughout the world also. His son's, the 
heroic allied aviator Quenten's, grave in France will not be visited by the 
loving, mourning father now. but their inspired, reincarnated spirits have 
joined each other in an even more perfect union among the white hero 
angels who surround the throne of Ciod throughout eternity. 

Their spirits in a real sense will remain with us to bless us for all 
time and insi)ire us to noble deeds and heroic action for personal, national 
and world welfare and betterment. Our dead are our most permanent 
and real and absolute possessions. Customs may change, wealth may dis- 
appear, and ancient empires may fall or cease to exist in their old-lime 
organizations, yet the rides and walks, the mornings and the evenings 
spent together, the sorrows and the joys, and the kindly deeds of our 
lamented departed remain in our memories as long as we exist, an ever- 
present, powerful force for good. 

A Roosevelt saying was to "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Yet 
while President he was largely instrumental in getting two great nations 
to sign the famous peace treaty of Portsmouth in America ending one 
bloody war. 

Extreme, sturdy Americanism was the prominent part of Roosevelt's 
great chnracter. and he realized he could not be thoroughly .Aniorica'i 
without living fully up to all our rights and duties to all mankind, hence 
his enerii'^etic urging America to larger military, naval and aviation pre- 
paredness, and the extreme desirability of our entering the war against 
Ciermany at least a year before we did. God's ways are best, and the 
delr.y gave timr for certain much-needed reforms to develop, but the 
jiassage of time makes the nation more appreciative of Roose\elt's point 

of vi'MV. 

Peace to his mcir.ory. 

E. CoRNiiMus .Andrkws. 



President Wilson's sincere, well-worded proclamation follows: 

Washington, Jan. 7. — The following proclamation on the death of 
Theodore Roosevelt was cabled from Paris today by President Wilson 
and issued tonight at the State Departn;ent : 

"A proclamation to the people of the United States: 

"It becomes my sad duty to announce officially the death of Theodore 
Roosevelt, President of the United States from September 14, 1901, to 
March 4, 1909, which occurred at his home, at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, 
New York, at 4.15 o'clock in the morning of January 6, 1919. In his 
death the United States has lost one of its most distinguished and ])atriotic 
citizens, who endeared himself to the people by his strenuous devotion to 
their interests and to the public interests of his country. 

"As president of the Police Board of his native city, as member of 
the Legislature and Governor of his State, as Civil Service Commissioner, 
as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, as Vice President, and as President 
of the United States, he displayed administrative powers of a signal order, 
and conducted the affairs of these various offices with a concentration of 
effort and a watchful care which permitted no divergence from the line 
of duty he had definitely set for himself. 

"In the war with Spain he displayed singular initiative and energy 
and distinguished himself among the commanders of the army in the field. 
As President he awoke the nation to the dangers of private control which 
lurked in our financial and industrial systems. It was by thus arresting 
the attention and stimulating the purpose of the country that he opened 
the way for subsequent necessary and beneficial reforms. 

"His private life was characterized by a simplicity, a virtue and an 
affection worthy of all admiration and emulation by the people of America. 

"In testimony of the respect in which his memory is held by the Gov- 
ernment and people of the United States, I do hereby direct that the flags 
of the White House and the several departmental buildings be displayed 
at half-mast for a period of thirty days, and that suitable military and 
naval honors under orders of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy 
be rendered on the day of the funeral. 

"Done this 7th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
nine hundred and nineteen, and of the independence of the L'nited States 
of America the one hundred and forty-third. 

WooDRow Wilson. 
"By the President, Frank L. Polk, acting Secretary of State." 



Because I believe thoroughly in the great power of good poetry to 
express the best, I here copy this, at my expense, from the optimist col- 
umn of "The North American," Philadelphia : 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT 



Hast-mast the flag whose meaning he enlarged 
Through that bold spirit of the unchainetl mind. 

Abhorring and by selfishness abhorr'd ; 

Whose life for justice was a flashing sword; 
For truth a championship which ne'er declined 

The challenge of a duty Fate had charged ! 

A man unliked by every form of wrong, 
A man despised by graft, hated by greed, 

Whom coward souls delighted to assail, 

For this — because at no time did he fail 

To place all else beneath his country's need, 

Unheedful of the predatory throng. 

Pause in thy round, America, to mark 

In how full measure he reflected thee 
In thy best hopes and dreams ! 
It almost seems 

He typified the spirit of the free — 
A man-flame, scourging, purging all the dark ! 

A gentleman, straight-spoken, unafraid, 

A scholar amply versed in ancient lore, 
A man young men believed in — highest praise I — 
A worker, wasting none of life's rich days. 

Who, for the sake of common good, foreswore 
The ease that ample service had repaid. 

We shall not see his like again, but here 

Where freedom's hopes are centered, we shall see 

The widening circle of his high intent — 

Increasing hosts, by him inspired, more bent 
On righteousness and justice. He shall be 

A quenchless light to keep the course more clear! 

Leon Mitchkll Hodges. 



WORLD UNION 




A present World Union is not at all comparable with past 
leagues, because aeroplanes and wireless and electric, steam and 
gasoline inventions make it much cheaper and easier now to 
quickly centralize delegates and world facts or information or 
truth if folks want truth. This helps emphasize Truth more 
than military force or mere laws. World Union should prob- 
ably have legislative, executive and judicial departments some- 
what similar to the tried and tested departments of the U. S. 
Government and the great British Empire, which are both made 
up of States which are themselves larger and richer than many 
independent nations at present are. 



Copyright, 1919 
By E. Cornelius Andrews 



An inventor, lawyer, Christian statement of facts strongly pointing 
to the need of an immediate and efficient world union. 



E. CORNELIUS ANDREWS, B. S., B. LL.. Author, 
P. O. Lock Box 593. 
^ Philadelphia, Pa. 



[NVENTORS' REASONS FOR A WORLD UNION OR LEAGUE 
OF NATIONS— WORLD UNION IS A PRESENT MILITARY 
AND FINANCIAL OR ECONOMIC NECESSITY. NOT 
MERELY THE DREAM OF PACIFISTS AND CHIEF HOPE 
OF LASTING PEACE ONLY. 

Friends under all flags, let us praise God heartily for all our heroes, 
military and civilian, dead and living, here and over there, for supporting 
taxpayers and workers, for the spirit of the 350,000 victims of influenza 
of America alone, many of whom would be with us now but for the stress 
and food limitations of war. It is by the real, though maybe joyful, 
sacrifice of all our heroes combined in wonderful co-operation that we 
are today permitted such a glorious opportunity to start the open official 
World Union under such auspicious circumstances. We can thank God 
best by expressing appreciation as best we each can to the individual 
heroes of the world's greatest war on land or sea or in the air. 

It is beyond our power to "add to or detract from" the merit of the 
mighty host of heroes of this greatest World War in history. Yet it is 
fitting for us to rcdedicate ourselves to the fuller freedom that is in Christ 
Jesus, the abundant life for which they so nobly fought and for which 
millions so grandly died. Surely the creation of a World Union quickly 
would be the one way of partly rewarding our mighty heroes. 

Proper Washington authorities quite rightly ruled recently that poets, 
fiction and ad. writers are engaged in essential industry. Tennyson was 
so practical a man that he. more than fifty years ago. predicted (in one 
score only of lines in Locksley Hall) both commercial aeroplanes and 
aerial navies, and further they dropped "bombs of ghastly dew"' or used 
poison gas, and then in logical order predicted the Parliament of Man, 
Federation of the world. It reads as follows : 

"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, 
Saw the vision of the world and all the wonders that should be ; 
Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails; 
Pilots of the purple twilight, drojiping down with costly bales : 
Heard the heavens fill with shouting and there rain'd a ghasllv dew 
From the nations' airy navies, grappling in rlie central blue ; 
Far along the worldwide whisper of the south wind rushing warm. 
With the star darts of the peoples plunging through the thunderstorm. 
Till the war drum throbb'd no longer and the battle flags were furled 
In the parliament of man. the federation of the world f 
Then the conmion sen.se of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe. 
And the kindly earth shall slumber, rapt in universal law." 
The poet, Tennyson, had inventions yet to be born in his minil when 
he wrote the above poem. These dreams have been realized fully upon 
now, except full World Ljiion. which is coming soon. 

Even autos. railroads, cables, telegraph wires, motor boats and steam- 
ships pay scant attention to national boundary lines, but wireless and 
aeroplanes give absolutely no notice at all to 'artificial boundaries, and 
travel vast distances so fast that they knit the whole world together and 
make a world capital very feasible. At comparatively little cost and no 
loss of time, all important news of the world can be easily centered at 
one place called the world capital. Tn "ye olden times" travel was slow. 

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dangerous and expensive, and neither people nor express matter nor news 
eouid be easily and quickly centered at a world capital, though the glory 
of Julius Cc-esar was his dream of a World Capital at Rome even that 
long ago, based on force and law, and Roman law was then the best in 
the wo1-ld. The force plus law idea seems to have been the German idea 
of today. But a World Capital at the time of Cresar, because of the poor, 
slow, costly communication, would have been uninformed, hence arbitrary 
and a curse rather than a blessing. But now, because of the splendid 
system of communication and travel, and especially because of the pos- 
sible combination of aeroplanes and poison gas bombs, the League ot 
Nations or World Court has become a military necessity for protecting 
civilization, not merely the dream of those whom many now. also even 
cowards, feel safe to abuse because of their peaceful doctrine, viz. : Paci- 
fists. This is not defending any who will not fight effectively as they 
can for a righteous cause. 

Inventors think God's thoughts after Him, else their inventions 
would not be so beneficent in purpose and performance. Inventors' work 
is very spectacular in that which has produced modern ways of distance 
communication and travel and modern methods of cheap and good print- 
ing. These products of inventors stand out among a host of others, 
perhaps not so much less important as less spectacular, that make for 
the necessity, yes, the crying need of an immemdiate Parliament of Man, 
Federation of the world. Inventors, being human like others, now feel 
the heart cry out for honorable peace and "righteousness and peace" to 
relieve unnecessary human suffering and believe a World League of Na- 
tions will help much to secure lasting peace with righteousness. Further- 
more, the Scientific American and other magazines say truly that 
inventors' and authors' righteous desire for world-wide patent and copy- 
right protection to quicker develop their inventions practically for the 
good of mankind is one of the strongest forces for World Union that 
exists. An International Copyright Union, and also an International 
Trademark Union, containing many, but not all nations, already exists, 
pointing the way to the great World Union, as does the Postal Union 
and the world-wide Churches and International Lodges and Labor Unions 
and the Pan-American Union, etc. 

Caesar's idea of world government was really great for its time, 
because it depended not on force only, though the armies of Rome were 
real conquerors, but upon Roman law, which was the greatest system ever 
known up to that time, about 48 B. C. Who can tell but that Julius 
Caesar's wonderful vision of the union of force and law to bring about 
world union may have been a chief source of inspiration for the Jewish 
or Christ ideas, in which real, not merely seeming, truth is made the basis 
of all the love and mercy of God, and so the centre of the World Union 
idea. Accepting Julius Caesar's world union idea, Christianity was 
founded on the firmer foundation of real truth. 

Working for the World Union is not a substitute for personrd hon- 
esty, personal purity and holiness, but the World L'nion will help much in 
unexpected ways to make individual Christian virtue easier, for one thing 
by preventing national crime, as that against Belgium. The League of 
Nations will serve another very useful purpose in making the leading, 
more Christian nations realize as never before they truly must civilize 
and Christianize the wdiole world or be lost, held back or thwarted them- 



sehcs. for if the ignorant nations outnumber the enlightened nations, then 
the ignorant will outvote the enlightened, and so the whole world or 
world union be held back. Hence the World Union will have a beneficent 
influence upon the World Missionary Movement and be a new, practical 
reason for the conxersion of the world to Christ or the education and 
enlightenment of the heathen. May God hasten the righteous and lasting 
peace through the World Union or organization for righteousness' sake 
to smite all sin and unnecessary war with all the power of the united forces 
for good in all the world. 

Paul Mowrer, in the Philadelphia Bulletin, December 5th. says: "A 
league of nations is not only practical, but is the only practical way out of 
the tremendous difficulties of the future. Despite anything any one else 
may do or say, the old era is dead. The old system of power and spheres 
of influence is dead. Even the Monroe Doctrine is essentially dead." 
The present Allied League of Nations is a going concern, successful in 
its purpose, and might well be the basis of a permanent World League. 
controlling pretty much the whole world for the benefit of all mankind. 

Praise God. I do not belong to those practically faithless creatures 
who admit the Bible was and is inspired but deny present-day inspiration 
of men alive now. I truly believe President Wilson was divinely inspired 
when he gave official recognition to the widespread demand for World 
L^nion by his most historic speech in the U. S. Senate. May God guide 
him and all those at the Great Peace Conference near Paris to use the 
wisest methods for securing a working World Union qtiickly. I believe 
I am truly inspired to take time from my pressing private business and 
write this as a private citizen for the benefit of all mankind. I believe 
Dr. Frank Crane was inspired to write the article which he did so well 
in the Christian Herald in 19 14, advocating the World Union idea. Fur- 
thermore my plainly worded brief book published and copyrighted twice 
last year (1917 in July and .August) at Ann .A.rbor, Mich., "helped the 
-Allied cause, hence God's cause very materially, as I have good reason 
to know. It is entitled "True Patriotism, Righteous Peace for All Na- 
tions to Be Secured by World Court League. Whose Formation Will Be 
Greatly Hastened by Intelligent Study of National and World Trans- 
portation Problems." It is formally dedicated on the first page, "To the 
\\ orld Court Under God Making the Universal Brotherhood of Man a 
Solid Legal Fact Speedily." 

Space here forbids a fuller statement of the present compelling finan- 
cial demand for a World Union. World war debts of heretofore 
uiiheanl \astness compel World L'nion as an economic necessity if the 
nations of the earth would pay even the interest on such huge sums, and 
so avoid the cataclysm of repudiation. Also World Union is needed 
sorely to prevent further economic strain of future wars. 

This is a lawyer's, as well as an inventor's, plea for World Union, 
for the author spent some of the ver>- best years of his energetic younger 
life at the largest law school in .\merica. then at .Xnn .Vrhor. Mich., unller 
some of the world's best law teachers. Also his somewhat extensive land 
farming ;ind inxcntion business requires considerable legal knowledge. 
His inventions are officially endorsed as being new, useful and worthy 
of Government protection by patent in a goodly number of the world's 
greatest nations, and when used are a practical health blessing to most 
any one. Yet, above all else, he prays and believes that this brief, inten- 

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sive work for the World Union idea is truly Christian. He attended 
several times voluntarily as a highly interested visitor the internationally 
famous President Angcll's class on International Law, and took the full 
international law course in a smaller college a year later. F'resident 
Angell had been the regular U. S. Minister to Turkey, also to China, two 
places where many international law precedents have been established. 
He met President Angell personally and enjoyed brief conversations with 
him a number of times, acting on committee work important enough to 
engage even President Angell. Also this author attended the very last 
commencement banquet President Angell presided at as active presi- 
dent, marking the close of half a century of very di.stinguished service. 
Also this author spent a pleasant hour in 1912 late summer in the -\ngeil 
home on the campus, and for a quarter of an hour discussed his United 
Bed Porch, for which patent was then applied, but not granted for years 
later. President Angell said he appreciated this invention as a practical 
health aid. 

In the small new law college at tine State University of South Dakota, 
at \'ermillion, this author took the full lecture course under the Hon. 
Bartlett Trip, the most famous Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Dakota 
ever produced. This internationally known jurist and diplomat was Cleve- 
land's regular U. S. Ambassador to Vienna, and the McKinley appointed 
chairman of the International Commission settling the Samoan difficulty 
between European nations. At a formal University reception the Hon. 
Bartlett Trip, with every evidence of justified pride and pleasure, intro- 
duced this author to more or less prominent people as "his boy." The 
Hon. Bartlett Tripp passed to his eternal reward some years ago, leaving 
no male relatives of any degree bearing his name in all Dakota, and his 
"law student boys" are all he has now, and are his spiritual descendants. 

Foreign trade and travel and international marriages are all helpful 
forces tending to a better understanding between nations and toward the 
World's Union. 

Beyond all question, the greatest force knitting the world together 
is the Church and Gospel of Jesus Christ : Christian missions are the 
mightiest factor knitting the world together that exists. During the last 
twenty-five years this author has been vitally interested in ForeiTu Mis- 
sions, and has read much about it. and attended many missionarv conven- 
tions. At one such convention there were three men present whose lives 
totaled 150 years of service as missionary leaders; one as a Baptist in 
China, one as a Presbyterian in Africa, and one as a Methodist in India; 
Bishop Thoburn, whom he met and liked because, for one thing, the aged 
Bishop gave him a short letter of blessing on his home church for their 
anniversary. Dr. Nassau. Presbyterian, told some of the most delight- 
fully original African stories, just stories, at a public entertainment, aside 
from the interdenominational convention, that this author has ever heard. 
He enjoyed also a brief chat with Dr. Nassau. Pardon the personal 
allusions ; yet these foreign missionary conventions tended strongly to 
promote World Union by showing the universal nature of Christianity 
and the essential oneness of truth, and the need of a great central force 
and co-operation for righteousness' sake. Close instant co-operation is 
now made easily practical by many great inventions referred to briefly 
above. 

The kind and accurate typist at the New Bingham Hotel dailv rewrote 

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thi.- work for a fair fee each time, until she tired of the sameness, and 
Saturday, December 7th, she was too busy, so the equally kind and accu- 
rate man at the Adelphia Hotel wrote the final copy for me. By inspiring 
coincidence (because my father, Cornelius Andrews' ancestors, came 
from the British Isles before the Revolutionary War. in which our ances- 
tors fought, and because I paid high prices and high taxes for this war 
and simplified a valuable invention for the Allies and paid nearly $100 
taxes on my United Bed Porch Patents in England and France this year 
even) I attended the British celebration at Philadelphia's largest audi- 
torium (Metropolitan) Saturday evening, December 7th, in honor of 
Britain's wonderful navy and great army, and also in honor of the Eng- 
lish language gift to us (which I emi)hasized in my 1917 book), and the 
common law base they gave us. and there heard Major General MaC' 
Laughlin. Chief Military Attache of the British Washington Embassy, 
and also President Russell H. Conwell, of Temple University, a noted 
lecturer, who made the proposed World Union (urged by this article) as 
the very climax of his speech, and further stated his belief that the Hague 
would probably be the World Union Capital. Provost Smith, head of 
the great University of Pennsylvania, presided, and there were thrice as 
nian\- turned away from the doors as were able to enter, British war work 
is so appreciated here. 

The captain and hundreds of the crew of the Cumberland were pres- 
ent on the stage and sang war songs and received a flag in special honor 
of their bravery at Jutland and at Gallipoli. 

With a bigger U. S. Navy, merchant marine and huge air mail-carry- 
ing fleet, perhaps we would have gone in and helped the Allies finish the 
Great War in '16, and surely would have ended it in '17. In 1915 Andrews 
wrote a quarter-column article in the Sioux City Tribune; with 50,000 
circulation, advocating the immediate building of an airplane mail-carrying 
fleet of large size, and to have the aviators sworn in "to mobilize in time 
of national peril." We have just cause for honest pride in the very high 
quality of our U. S. Navy, our merchant shipping and our air 'fleets. 
I'ractically all Americans earnestly desire all three fleets to also equal in 
size and number the largest in the world. World Union aids honest 
endeavor, and does not hinder, as our National Government aids honest 
endeavor in the States. 

Millions hope we will always live at righteous peace with all mankind, 
and especially with English-speaking peoples. We sincerely admire 
Canada and Australia, and have lived at peace with all the British Empire 
for over a hundred years now. 

Ex-President Taft, at a Peace Society Convention at the Academy 
of Music, Philadeli)hia, last spring, to endorse the Allied cause, which the 
author attended in part, emphasized the righteousness of the Allies in 
the World War. President 'J'aft is now quoted in die papers extensivelv 
as being in favor of giving the German colonies into the direct control of 
the proposed new League of Nations. This may possibly be the best 
solution of the German colonial problem, and if it is, after thorough 
investigation, will no doubt be accepted by the Peace Conference at \'er- 
sailles. near Paris. 

The Philadelphia Public Ledger, when President Wilson was about 
tn arrive in France, had an article from one of their correspondents sail- 
ing with the President, which was given double-header, front-page posi- 

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tion, and stated the President's League of Nations is "the brightest Gospel' 
preached since the Christian era." 

Tennyson's logical idea, quoted above, that the World Union would 
be necessary to control the terrible combinations of airplanes and poison 
gas bombs is the basis, consciously or not, of a resolution that has been 
introduced very recently in the French Chamber of Deputies, recom- 
mending that a light blue flag be used by the World Union, because blue 
represents the sea and sky, which the World Union will specially rule. 
A visible symbol for the spiritual content or meaning of the World Union 
is doubtless very desirable. The chief meaning is the "peace with honor" 
idea, of course. In the JVorld Court Magazine, December, 1918, Premier 
Lloyd George is quoted as saying, "A League of Nations guarantees peace 
and guarantees also an all-round reduction of armament, and that reduc- 
tion of armament is a guarantee you can get rid of conscription here." 
Doing away with conscri])tion possibly will not come immediately, Lloyd 
George says. 

If we care to build on past experiences by noticing the largest, richest 
Leagues of Nations heretofore successfully existing, the British Empire 
and the United States of America, possibly the new World Union will 
have departments somewhat like the legislative, executive and judicial 
of these nations. 

A French outline of remedies to be used before resorting to war is 
as follows: i, Diplomatic, withdrawal of Ambassadors from the mistaken 
nations; 2, Judicial, refusing use of courts by any from recalcitrant 
nations ; 3, Economic, refusal to buy and sell to the stubborn nation ; 

4. Postal, refusing use of mails in the World Union to the stubborn nation ; 

5, W^ar. The above four measures, when used by the World Union 
before war would help much to bring about "Glory to God in the highest; 
peace on earth, good will to men" without a war. 

It is not truly American to fear anything whatever, merely because 
of its size and power. The real American Christian believes that God. 
working through the best of mankind, will cause any great organization 
to work out God's purposes. The mere fact that the huge World Union 
could be abused and made to serve the devil in many ways and so do vast 
harm, is not sufficient reason to discard the idea altogether or refuse to 
make use of its good features. Every counterfeit dollar compliments 
the real money, as every hypocrite compliments the real Christians, by 
borrowing their forms and appearances or "the livery of Heaven to serve 
the devil with." Hypocrites in a church only show the power to do good 
real Christian men have, for people do not consciously imitate the bad. 
Sneaking, dishonest missionaries only prove the power of real Christian 
missionaries by using their methods and machinery. So the mere ])ossi- 
bility of awful misuse of the World Union only proves its real power 
for good. 

The undoubted fact that Christianity empiiasizes personal honesty, 
purity and holiness merely supplements and aids organization for right- 
eous purposes and in nowise contradicts or injures individual righteous- 
ness. Quite the opposite for Christianity is strong for organization for 
righteousness' sake and finds that it can be ot great aid to personal right- 
eousness, and so I have faith to believe that the World Union will be 
useful in many other ways than making possible world-wide patents and 
world-wide copyrights, and so assist by developing more rapidly greatly 

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'necfled maiikiiKl-ser\ini,' imentions. W orkl Union will truly help hasten 
the happy days when all niankintl will truly sing and live "Glory to God 
in the Highest." 

President Wilson's address to the Italian Chamber of Deputies at 
Rome, about January 5th, 1919, says: "There is only one thing that holds 
nations together, if you exclude force, and that is friendship and good 
will," and then he went on to say. "< )ur task at Paris is to organize the 
friendship of the world, to see to it that all the moral forces that make 
for right and justice and liberty are united and are given a vital organiza- 
tion to which the people of the world will readily and gladly respond." 
This refers to the World Union also equally well. As a world-wide, 
trustworthy publicity agent, having the confidence of the world, and let- 
ting light in on dark places, and so preventing wars by curing their causes 
in advance, the World Union will amply justify its existence. 

My own dear father enlisted in the first company ever raised in one 
of the greatest territories in the United States, under Abraham Lincoln, 
with millions of brave men from the North, to fight for the preservation 
of our American Union, or to prevent the South from seceding, and if 
the South had seceded, jealous watching of each other by the North and 
South would have prevented efi:ecti\e, large-scale participation in the 
great World War, and the Kaiser would have succeeded. So in a ver\- 
real sense Abraham Lincoln and his supporters did much to defeat the 
Kaiser. This Union in .America also points the way to the great World 
Union. If the American Union is worth fighting for, to the death if 
necessary, as those millions of men thought, how much more is a present 
union of the entire world worth fighting for? If the American Union 
made jmssible our doing practical good on a scale we could never have 
dreamed of wdthout Union here, how much greater good will be accom- 
plished by the World Union? Let us have faith in the best men every- 
where, regardless of nationality, and let us not be held back any longer 
by foolish fancy and fears of other nationalities from a speedy, effective 
\Vorld L'nion, at least of all free peoples. Let us be generous in inter- 
preting the phrase "free peo])les" also. Faith is the victory that over- 
comes the world of evil, and the World Union is to be attained by faith, 
mainly, and first to build fitting works or deeds upon, g^^,,^^^ 

What New York and California and all states «p#^ftft India and 
South Africa and Egypt and all ])rovinces give up to their central gov- 
ernments is nothing, mere rubbish, compared to the blessings they receive 
in fuller, richer life from their central governments. 

May all k)\crs of truth and justice and God-fearing men e\or\\vhcre 
group thcmsehes quickly under the world union for "the healing of the 
nations." 

"The Phila(lel])hia Record," January 14th, says: "Touching on the 
utility of 'co-operation' in solving world problems. Secretary Franklin 
Lane pointed to associations, cities. States and the nation itself 'as co- 
operati\e effort.' " 

"Those who stand against iulernational co-operation are standing 
against the very trend of business life, the trend of labor organizations, 
the trend of scientific efi'ort. the trend of the centuries." he declared. 

E. CoKNKLius Andrews. 
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